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119th Congress

H.R. 3455

Veterans Affairs Distributed Ledger Innovation Act of 2025

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. To President
  6. Became law
Sponsor
Nancy Mace(R-SC)
Introduced
May 15, 2025
Policy area
Armed Forces and National Security
Committees
House Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Official text
Reported in House · Congress.gov page

Cosponsors (0)

No cosponsors.

Summary

Summary by the Congressional Research Service· describes the “Introduced in House” version

Veterans Affairs Distributed Ledger Innovation Act of 2025 This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to report to Congress on the feasibility, potential benefits, and risks associated with implementing distributed ledger technology to improve claims adjudication and prevent fraud, waste, and abuse within the VA’s benefits administration systems. Under the bill, a distributed ledger (1) is shared across a set of distributed nodes that participate in a network and store a complete or partial replica of the ledger, (2) is synchronized between the nodes, and (3) has data appended to it by following a specified consensus mechanism.

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